India-South Korea: Cabinet approves MoU on issuing Postage Stamp

Union Cabinet has apprised Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between India and South Korea to jointly issue Postage Stamps on the theme "Queen Hur Hwang-ok of Korea". The MoU was signed between Department of Posts, Union Ministry of Communications and South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT (Korea Post). The joint stamps will be released on a mutually agreed date by the end of 2019.

Queen Hur Hwang-ok (Suriratna)

She was Ayodhya’s legendary Princess Suriratna, who had traveled to Korea in 48 CE and married Korean King Kim-Suro.Large number of Koreans trace their ancestry to this legendary princess.